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DRY GOODS DISPLAYER.

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ROBERT W. VVHITEHURST, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOB OF ONE. HALF TO MCDONALD L. \VRENN, OF SAME PLACE.

DRY-Goons DISPLAYER.

EEPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent'No. 358,418, dated February 22, 1887.

Application filed March 8, 1886. Serial No. 194,380.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT W. WHITE- HURST, a citizen of the United States, residing at Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dry-Goods Displayers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to improvements in dry-goods displayers, and is more especially designed as an improvement on Letters Patent granted me March 30, 1886, and numbered 339,081; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter described,and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, Figure 1 is an elevation of the displayer, in which three of the swiveled hook-bars are shown in an endwise position and two in a crosswise position, one of the bars in each position supporting rolls of goods. Fig. 2 is an elevation of part of the displayer, showing two modifications in the arms which support the dry goods. Fig. 3 is a horizontal cross-section showing a top view of one of the swiveled bars and its arms.

The letter A designates a base or pedestal. A round shaft, B, is fixed vertically, its lower end being secured in any suitable manner in the base. A number of horizontal bars, 0, are swiveled on the vertical shaft and extend on each side thereof at right angles thereto. A tube, D, on the lower part of the shaft has its lower end resting on the base A, audits upper end supports the lower horizontal bar, 0. Between each two horizontal bars a tube, E, is placed on the shaft. These tubes E are of equal length, and each one supports an independent bar, O, above it. By this arrangement and construction each bar may be turned independently of the others.

The upper end of the shaft B is provided with a nut, m, which serves to keep the bars O and tubes E in position on the shaft, and also to take up the wear of said bars and tubes. Each bar 0 is provided at its ends and on both sides thereof with supporting-arms F, which are arranged in pairs, one pair being No model.)

on an opposite side of the bar from the other pair. Each pair of arms is thus adapted to support a roll, G, of dry goods, and the weight of the roll G,supported at one side of thebar, will counterbalance the weight of the roll on the other side, and thus allow the bar to turn freely. The supporting-arms F, attached to the bar, are curved, and may project and in cline downward or upward, each of these two ways being shown in Figs. 1 and 2, respectively; but whichever way they project and incline it is essential that the pair of arms on one bar shall not overlap the pair next above or below, nor shall they overlap the bar itself above or below. One advantage of this arrangement of the pairs of arms is that thereby the entire broad side of the roll of dry goods when on the arms is exposed to View, thus displaying the pattern of the goods much better than is possible by the devices heretofore in use. This advantage is attained whether the pairs of arms be attached to revoluble bars or to a stationary support. Another advantage of thus arranging the arms and bars is that each bar whose arms are loaded with rolls may be turned independently of the other bars.

The arms F may consist, as in Fig. I, of a single prong having a straight part, (I, a curved part, c, whereon the roll of goods is to be seated, and an end, f, having holes for screws whereby to attach it to the bar. In Figs. 2 and 3 another form of arm is shown. In this case each arm has two branches, e, which are united at the projecting bent-up end 0. From this projecting upward-pointing end 6. the two branches e spread V shape and are curved, and the end at of each branch has an eye, 1), for a screw to attach it.

No claim is here made to the form of arm having two branches united at the projecting upward-pointing end, as the same is claimed in another application which I filed in the Patent Office April 22, 1885.

Having described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States i The dry-goods displayer herein described, consisting of a shaft, B, having arranged thereon at suitable distances apart tubes E, the independent bars 0, interposed and pivoted between said'tubes on the shaft and extending out at right angles on both sides of said shaft, Said bars having at their ends inclined arms In testimony whereof I affix my signature in to presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT W. \VIIITEHURST.

F, arranged in pairs and extending from both Vitnesses: sides thereof, the whole constructed and ar- GEO. D. DEY ranged to display goods from the opposite K. R. COBB.

sides of the shaft, as set forth. 

